So the covidian narrative is that the lockdowns saved lives even though 1.2 million people died and/or anyway there were no real lockdowns, you just maybe couldn’t go to the gym for a couple months, and civil liberties are a silly right wing concept.
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It’s incredibly disturbing to me that the public has moved on from the covid era without any acknowledgment of just how egregious the civil liberties violations were; how damaging the restrictions were to children, the poor and working class, the elderly, the mentally ill 1/
those who live alone, and those who have substance abuse problems; and the utter pointlessness of the suffering power hungry bureaucrats inflicted on us. But then I realized: maybe such reckonings don’t occur for a generation or so. 2/
Maybe those who were responsible and those who remained silent simply can’t admit to themselves and those they wronged just how terribly they behaved or how cowardly they were, and that they let fear and prejudice subsume rationality. 3/
In a scathing statement, Justice Gorsuch described covid restrictions as possibly "the greatest intrusion[] on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country." He recognized that gov't "pressured social-media companies to suppress information about pandemic policies..
Something has gone terribly wrong in science and medicine. realityslaststand.com/p/were-not-goi…
The author of this piece astutely observes that "Lawmakers shouldn’t have to restrict sex changes to adults, but US-based medical organizations are not doing their job at following the science" 1/
The other day, the Atlantic published an article about a doctor who provides late-term abortions, often on healthy babies. I had been under the--I now realize false impression--that doctors just wouldn't do this because medical ethics wouldn't allow it. 2/
And don't even get me started on doctors' response to covid, which revealed that, as a general matter, members of that profession entirely lack commonsense as well as scientific literacy. 3/
I was a huge fan of DeSantis throughout covid. But I cannot abide by the fact he is signing into law bills that obviously violate the First Amendment. That's so although I don't agree with much of the speech these laws target, b/c that's what it means to believe in free speech.
DeSantis could find ways to oppose the woke agenda without violating Floridians' free speech rights.
In reply to popular demand, here is the latest bill that the governor is poised to sign into law: flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2…
take a look at pp. 19-20. This isn't about banning porn in kindergarten. It's about banning speech we don't like at universities.
Judge Doughty just DENIED gov't defendants' motion to dismiss in Missouri v. Biden (with an exception for claims against President, which are generally disfavored). I'm working my way through the 77-page decision, which I'll link to soon and post choice quotes from
"The Court finds that the Complaint alleges significant
encouragement and coercion that converts the otherwise private conduct of censorship on social media platforms into state action, and is unpersuaded by Defendants’ arguments to the contrary."
The blitz of articles from left-leaning media and Tweeters condemning the Cochrane review of efficacy of mask mandates is nothing short of astonishing. Because the authors acknowledged that subjects didn't always wear facecoverings properly, mask fanatics insist this shows 1/5
the problem is with people, not masks or mandates. Setting aside that masks probably don't stop the spread of respiratory viruses even if worn properly because the aerosols are too small, it should go without saying that the reason people were "noncomplaint" is that it 2/5
simply isn't realistic to expect people to wear their masks over their noses and mouths without any ventilation on the side for long periods of time, esp. children. All of us, including adults, need to eat, breathe, talk, exercise, and live. 3/5